
U of M part of Toyota Research Institute’s new initiative
CS&E's Hyun Soo Park will lead artificial intelligence research to better understand drivers' behavior to increase safe driving

Avatars to the rescue
A team of CS&E students is working with assistant professor Evan Suma Rosenberg on more immersive options to video conferencing.

Daniel Boley named Distinguished Member by the ACM
This recognition from the Association for Computing Machinery celebrates his long-term commitment and outstanding scientific contributions to computing.

CS&E wins prestigious 10-Year Highest-Impact award at ICDM 2020
“SLIM: Sparse Linear Methods for Top-N Recommender Systems” was published by alumna Xia Ning (Ph.D, 2012) and her advisor, Professor George Karypis in 2011.

Building a brighter future with robotics
From exploring shipwrecks to air-dropping supplies in a pandemic, CS&E faculty and students are designing robots for the 21st century.

AI helps scientists understand brain activity behind thoughts
CS&E associate professor Paul Schrater is part of the team who, for the first time, developed a method to measure thoughts.

Knights named 2020 Highly Cited Researcher
Associate Professor Knights is one of the most influential researchers in his fields, according to analysis of citation counts by Clarivate Analytics.

Team receives $1.2 million NSF grant to develop smart e-scooters
CS&E assistant professor Ju Sun is part of the team aiming to add tracking systems on electric scooters to improve safety of riders on the road.

Artificial intelligence, real-life results
CS&E's Ju Sun and colleagues from the Medical School have utilized machine learning to diagnose COVID-19 via X-ray imaging.

Keefe's visualization work featured in American Scientist
CS&E associate professor Dan Keefe is working to create visualization tools to better describe the world by blending the languages of science and art.

Traffic, transit data paint a picture of COVID-19 impacts
CS&E's Shashi Shekhar is using privacy-protected spatial data collected from cell phones to understand how Minnesotans responded to the pandemic.

New project creates 'first-ever traveling studio for indigenous co-design of spatial interfaces'
The project ‘Mixed Reality Spatial Interaction for Diverse Communities’ aims to get technology into community hands while accounting for pandemic restrictions.
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Gerrymandering Risk in Metrics of Income Inequality: Preliminary Results [conference paper]
Posted March 3, 2021
Jayant Gupta (Ph.D. student), Alexander Long (M.S. student), Shashi Shekhar (professor)
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT)

Enhancing Atomic Instruction Emulation for Cross-ISA Dynamic Binary Translation [conference paper]
Posted February 27, 2021
Ziyi Zhao, Zhang Jiang, Xiaoli Gong, Ying Chen, Wenwen Wang, Pen-Chung Yew (professor)
International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO)

ECIoT: Case for an Edge-Centric IoT Gateway [conference poster]
Posted February 24, 2021
Udhaya Kumar Dayalan (Ph.D. student), Rostand A. K. Fezeu (Ph.D. student), Nitin Varyani (Ph.D. student), Timothy J. Salo (Ph.D. student), Zhi-Li Zhang (professor)
22nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile '21)

Efficient Volumetric Video Streaming Through Super Resolution [conference paper]
Posted February 24, 2021
Anlan Zhang (Ph.D. student), Chendong Wang (M.S. student), Bo Han (adjunct assistant professor), Feng Qian (assistant professor)
22nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile '21)

Detecting Kernel Memory Leaks in Specialized Modules with Ownership Reasoning [conference paper]
Posted February 21, 2021
Navid Emamdoost (Ph.D. student), Qiushi Wu (Ph.D. student), Kangjie Lu (assistant professor), Stephen McCamant (associate professor)
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)

Your Phone is My Proxy: Detecting and Understanding Mobile Proxy Networks [conference paper]
Posted February 21, 2021
Xianghang Mi, Siyuan Tang, Zhengyi Li, Xiaojing Liao, Feng Qian (assistant professor), XiaoFeng Wang
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)

Deep Learning-Based Approaches for Decoding Motor Intent from Peripheral Nerve Signals [preprint]
Posted February 19, 2021
Diu Khue Luu, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Ming Jiang (postdoctoral associate), Jian Xu, Markus W Drealan, Jonathan Cheng, Edward W Keefer, Qi Zhao (assistant professor), Zhi Yang

A mixture of generative models strategy helps humans generalize across tasks [preprint]
Posted February 16, 2021
Santiago Herce Castañón, Pedro Cardoso-Leite, C Shawn Green, Irene Altarelli, Paul Schrater (associate professor), Daphne Bavelier

SCARLET: Explainable Attention based Graph Neural Network for Fake News spreader prediction [preprint]
Posted February 9, 2021
Bhavtosh Rath (Ph.D. student), Xavier Morales, Jaideep Srivastava (professor)

Relationship between Citizen-Eyewitness Images and Audience Engagement with News [journal]
Posted February 9, 2021
Jisu Kim, Jisu Huh, Bhavtosh Rath (Ph.D. student), Aadesh Salecha (undergraduate research assistant), Jaideep Srivastava (professor)
Journalism Practice